Vehicle-body.



T H PARRY k W J BYERS VEHICLE BODY.

APPLICATION I'nED SEPT 22 1910 997,508. Patented July 1 1, 1911.

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UNITED STATES PATENT oEEICE.

THOMAS H. PARBY AND WILLIAM J. BYERS, OF INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA, ASSIGNORS TO PARRY MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA., A CORPORA- TIN OF INDIANA. i

VEHICLE-BODY.

Specification of LettcrsPatent.

'Patented July 11, 1911.

Applicat-icn iled September 22, 1910. Serial 110.583.203.

To all whom it may concern:

' Be it7 known that we, Timms li. Panni and WILLIAM JQBYxms, both citizens of the United States, residing at Indianapolis. in

the eonnty of Marion and State ot' Indiana.

have invented certain new and use-ful lin- ,provenients in Vehicle-Bodies, of which the following.: is a specitiration.

'lhis invention relates to improvements in the construction of vehicley bodies, and the ohjcet of the invention is to forni the sides and ends ont of sheet metal, i'nsteznl of wood, which en-owingr scarce `and expensive and cracks and breaks-niort. than metal, and to secure the metal to a supporting frainein a n ianner to prevent rattling, and in a manner to htaee. and strengthen the frantic and also to keep the sheet metal from buckling and from loosenin; r up at any of its joints or places of attaclnnent.

\\-'e. accomplish the objects hy the means illustrated in the atxontpanying drawing, in

whiel1 Figure 1 isn. perspective View of a huggy. hotly embodying our invention. a portion ot the near side being hroken away to' more -steel will he the preferred inail-rial.

clearly illustrate the eznistrnetion. Fig. :Z

a vertical section through one side of the hotly on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1. Y

Like characters of reference indicate like parts-. throughout the several views of the drawings.

Referring to the drawings, L represnts the Yloor sill whieh forms a part 0f the i'ranie to which the metal .sides of the hotlyv are. fastened and 5 is the top rail 'of said frame. supported therefrom h v the posts (i. The top rail 5 is of usual constrin-lion` with the exception of its opper edge, which, instead' of being llat. is dressed to a halfround tongue 'i'. less. in diameter, than the thickness of the rail. equal to the thickness of the .slxeetanetal t'roni whiclrthe sides are made. The construit-,tion of the. frame coin prisionr sills l, por-ts G and rail 5. aside from the dili'erence in the top finish of said rails 5, above 'pointed ont, is of usual and welt known const roet ion.

S are the sheet metal sides and ends. in the (construction of which. hardened pressed The upper edges ot' the .sides and ends S a're bent inwardly to forni a little more than halfc vlinder rolls .i. whie. will-receive the hall'- round longues i' of the top rails: 5, the edges of the rolls i) terminating against the' shoulders formed in the rails 5 bv the re- '.lnce'd diameters mentioned ahove. t

ll'v makin;r the. rolls S) a little more than l|alfc \limlers. in angle i() is .formed at the juni-tion of the roll with the straight metal sheet. whieh. when the roll is hooked over the tongue 7 in asseinl)lin;,-will hear against the outer side` of the rail as a fulcrtnn and Strain the roll upon the tongue hv the continued movement of the plate into place against the side of the rail. This, fives the hod a headed linish at the top' which is pleasing to the eye,-and makes a tight-litting construction.

The lower edges of the sigle plates S are intnrned to forni the flanges 12. which extend under the floor :fills l. and are there seenred hy nails 1? driven through the flanges into the sills, as shown in Fig. :2. The ends of the .side plates are lient around the corner posts of the body' as shown at 1i in Fig. l and are :secured h v nails driven through the metal into the posts.

'hile we have here .shown the liest einhodinxent of our invention now known to.

ns, there are many variations not shown and which do not depart from' the spirit of our invention.` We, therefore, do not wish to he limited to an exaet eonstrncthm. hut` What we'do wish to claim and to have secured to us hy Letters latent of the United States v1s-- i. 'In a vehicle hodv, a frame eoniprisiugF floor-sills. and rails ahove and parallel with said sills. said rails hein`r rectangular in cross-section and having half'round upper edges. in combination with sheet lnelal sides and ends having upper edges hentto forni hook edges which are hooked over the halfround tlangjcs of the rails, said hook-edges heilig greater than half-c vliinlers and .said hook-edges forming au s at the junctions oflhel vertical hody portions with .said hent. edges which angles hear against the outer sides of the rails and .strain the hook-edges of the metal .sides upon the rails when .saizl lnelal sides are in position ot' use in contact with the .sides of the rails.

2. in :t vehicle-Mair. a frame eoinprisislg floor-.sills and wooden rails ahove .said silis. ,said rails having half-rewind upper edges which are narrower than the rail thereby formingr a shoulder. in couihination with :sheet lnetal side." and etuis having their Hpper edges heut nn the sume radius :is {he half-round ihmges of the upper mils to 'form uur hands zmxlfsezxis :it Indianapolis, Indihook-edges which :1re hooked over 'the hnlfnim, this, 14th dayof September, A. D, one round finnges on the mils, said h0ok-edges thousand nine. hundred and ten. heilig grenier than half-cylinders to form THOMAS H. PARRY. [1... s.]

u fulci'um 10 tu strain the rolls upon their 'ILLIM J. BYERS. [L s.] mils, :md said sides and ends having their fitnessesz Y lmvcr edges inturncd und secured to the un- F. 7. WOERNHR,

dr sides 0f the floor-sill. 1 L. B. TOERNEIL In witness whereof, we have'hereunto set 1o 

